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This is actually a GSM phone, not CDMA. It is LG 840G, not LG 840C. My mistake. My 2 hour edit window has closed and I have already contacted the mods asking them to correct the mistake including the title. I'm sure they will get around to it but I guess they are busy right now.

If you go to the TF web site, the lg840g, although not for sale yet, has the tutorial now on line (it wasn't there on Monday). Just go to support, click on learn about your phone, then click on Lg 840g...and voilà!

If you go to the TF web site, the lg840g, although not for sale yet, has the tutorial now on line (it wasn't there on Monday). Just go to support, click on learn about your phone, then click on Lg 840g...and voilà!

The tutorial has been available through the straight talk site for some time now (post #1). But it is nice to see it on the tracfone page. It's a sign that it is that much closer to actually being released.

By the way, it is also on the Net10 tutorials page: net10.com > Support > Phone Tutorials

I looked at the tutorials, and it appears to be charging like the S390G.

the buy/download app tutorial charges 14.97 minutes for the app, then deducts 11.07 minutes for the data connection (when you exit). Given the app is 602KB, at 1.5 minutes/100KB that would be 9.03 minutes, and the other 2.04 minutes would be for 136KB of data for browsing to find the app.

I looked at the tutorials, and it appears to be charging like the S390G.

the buy/download app tutorial charges 14.97 minutes for the app, then deducts 11.07 minutes for the data connection (when you exit). Given the app is 602KB, at 1.5 minutes/100KB that would be 9.03 minutes, and the other 2.04 minutes would be for 136KB of data for browsing to find the app. The LG530G looks to be doing the same.

The MMS portion of the LG 840G tutorial seems to show it is charging under the old scheme. 2.5 minutes for what is about 300 - 500 KB picture. Under the new scheme it would be about 7 minutes. So I'm satisfied if that is true for MMS.

The MMS charges are more important to me than data charges. I don't use data much and there is always wifi. But I use MMS a lot and MMS doesn't work on wifi. So, so far, I am happy.

The MMS portion of the LG 840G tutorial seems to show it is charging under the old scheme. 2.5 minutes for what is about 300 - 500 KB picture. Under the new scheme it would be about 7 minutes. So I'm satisfied if that is true for MMS.

Where do you get the size of the picture?
Sending a picture, step 6 after inserting the image, below the battery bar it says 70/600KB I read that as being 70KB for the message.
And if you compare the minute bank at the beginning and end you see 812.72 - 809.37 = 3.35 minutes used.

I don't think I'll be getting this one. I already have an ex124 that has a better camera and from what I've seen checking the web is going to suck because of the way the keyboard input is. Don't know why they can't use the same keyboard as the txt message.